What Is your next big grail goal?
Why do you consider it to be a grail?
What is your plan, and how long do you need to save up for it?
What is a Grail Card? - grail cards are often expensive cards that carry some significant meaning to an individual collector. Most people consider trophy or rare promo cards to be grails because of their limited distributions, but a grail can be any card that is meaningful to you.
Spanish Unseen Forces Cosmos Holo Ho-Oh & Lugia
I actually wrote an article about them …
I have to save money … probably some months …
But I’ll try to achieve that goal this year …
Thank you for the link, I missed that article last year and enjoyed catching up with it. Makes me wonder if Italian has similar historical exclusives. I hope you can get Spanish Ho-oh soon 
Thank you!!! Glad you’ve liked the article I’ve made in mid 2023. Livro Ilustrados were basically Half Decks. It was believed that Ho-Oh/Lugia ones were Portuguese exclusive (until some Spanish units were found and “Eskizo” (the owner of one unit of Ho-Oh Livro Ilustrado in Spanish) helped me with some data in order to make the article) …
Some time ago @Rockets_rares told me about Sinnoh Starters (Pokémon Day Stamp) 
… It seems that this stamp is exclusive to Italian (at least for these 3 cards)
Pokémon Day 2009 was an event held in Italy. It seems that it was a fun event!!!
There were tournaments for Gen IV games, an activity where people could draw their own cards and also a poster featuring Sky Shaymin was distributed!!!
Thank you!!! 
I can’t find an image of the unlimited version, so please imagine that the 1st edition mark isn’t there.
I am a big fan of the diamond, pearl and platinum shiny cards, because
a. Bagon!
I love the bagon line, and really enjoy seeing @sherotcg salamence collection pick-ups. They inspired me to start looking for clean, vintage salamence cards for my own collection.
b. It’s a cool set
While individually stunning, the cards in this subset look amazing together!
c. Shiny mechanics
This subset mimics the experience of finding shinies in a casual Pokémon play through. The set doesn’t use popular Pokémon, rather it mostly consists of random, unevolved Pokémon that players would often run into in a casual play through of the game. Each card has a non-shiny counterpart illustrated by the same artist that was much more common to simulate the experience of running into hundreds of non-shinies before finally finding a shiny Pokémon. For me this is nostalgic because the shiny Pokémon I found as a kid were never the ones that I expected to find lol. I remember finding a shiny Ponyta as a kid in Pokémon Gold while grinding levels outside Mt. Silver.
d. Rarity - real and conditional
The TCG did not enjoy its modern popularity at the time that these sets were released around 2009, and for that reason they were printed less, especially the unlimited versions of most sets. This was more so the case for the platinum sets rather than the diamond & pearl sets. The chance to pull a shiny from a box was also fairly low. I saw somewhere that the pull rate was 1 in 3 boxes, akin to gold star cards from previous sets. On top of all of this, the holo flakes very easily, which makes the cards difficult to grade. Usually conditional rarity is a hard turn-off for me, but there is too much to love about this set. Realistically, I hope to complete this set in PSA 9, but you never know which way the wind blows.
I know a guy willing to sell his copy, but I need to save up to meet his asking price. My plan is to save enough by March, or before my birthday this year 
Hopefully he doesn’t find another buyer before then.
distributor meeting piplup, turtwig, munchlax. I know I’ll probably never get any of them.
I have an unlimited psa something getting grades revealed later today, i could potentially let it go if it 10s although i wasnt planning on it.
I’ll message you if it 10s
What Is your next big grail goal?
Why do you consider it to be a grail?
I love shiny Pokémon and ‘trophy’ cards
What is your plan, and how long do you need to save up for it?
It sure will take more than a year to acquire.
Wow, that would be crazy if you got the third 10! Please let me know
that’s a great card, good luck with tracking it down!
My favorite set subset ever and i never thought about it that way awesome
I am on the lookout for a New Year 2000 Jumbo Postcard. Maybe not that rare as a grail card, but you have to start somewhere, and japanese promo cards are my jam. I am new in the hobby though, with a decent but European salary, and I can’t fathom how you guys can afford crazy expensive cards. I guess everyone is flipping to some degree chase cards to reach your goals?..
That’s massive! Congratulations🎉
I have one I need to send in, but the centering caps it at a 9 lol
Ty ty, unfortunately the bagon somehow got an 8 (PSA please send again)
Welcome to the forums @heracross-pcp. Awesome to have you on board and the postcard is a real great goal to have and is possibly a grail to many people. Really curious to know what other Japanese promos are you interested in since we share a lot of parallels below 
Looking forward to getting to know you better and you can use this thread to introduce yourself so we can all know you better.
Cheers!
